Tongue-cap and neck-yoke coupling.



.1. E. BENNETT.

TONGUE 0A1 AND NECK YOKE COUPLING. APPLIUATION FILED MAR. 28, 1911.

. Patented May 12, 1914.

JAMES EDWARD BENNETT, OF MOMENCE, ILLINOIS.

TONGUE-CAP AND NECK-YOKE COUPLING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 28, 1911.

Patented May 12, 1914. Serial No. 617,409.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JAMES EDWARD BEN- NETT, a citizen olf the United {States of America, and a resident of Momence, in the county of Kankakee and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tongue-Caps and Neck-Yoke Couplings, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention is an improvement on those caps or tips which are secured to the tongues or poles of carriages or wagons, and which are provided with a pivoted latch closing the entrance to the yoke coupling ringpocket so as to retain the coupling ring in the ring-pocket; the latch being raised up toward the top of the ring-pocket to enable the coupling ring to be released and removed over the end of the tongue cap.

In order that my invention may be fully understood I will proceed to describe it with reference to the accompanying drawing, in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved tongue cap and neck yoke coupling shown in connection with a neck yoke. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the same. Fig. 3 is a perspective view on a larger scale of the neck yoke coupling inverted.

To the outer end of a tongue or pole is fitted my improved thimble 10 which is formed with an upper tang having a transverse heel-slot 89, near its forward end and also with a lower tang having a depending coupling ring-stop 12 provided with a forwardly projecting lug 12 formed with a latch-recess in its forward end. The lug is spaced from the lower tang so as to provide a coupling ring-pocket thereunder for a conpling-ring 5. The thimble is removably secured to the end of the tongue, or pole, by bolts 11 extending therethrough and through the tangs of the thimble. The tongue cap is further provided with a head seating against the end of the tongue. At the front of the head and integral therewith is a hitching eye 90, having a segmental latchslot in its lower part which receives the heel of a latch 91 Whose free end is adapted to seat in the latch-recess of the lug 12 for closing the ring-pocket. The latch 91 is hinged within the latch-slot of the hitching eye by a pivot pin 15 extending thereacross. The latch is formed at the heel portion with a bracing short arm located within the hitching eye, impinging against and mer ing into the wall of the hitching eye so as to partly support the latch while weighting down the latter.

85 is a bifurcated yoke coupling receiving the coupling ring 5 between its arms and formed with a depending heel 86 curved at its lower end so as to straddle the thimble of the tongue-cap and engage in the transverse slot 89 thereof.

6 is a neck yoke the ends of which have the usual type of ferrules bolted thereon, and which are provided with rings 51. The

neck yoke is mounted in a sleeve 7 formed with upper ears 71 and a transverse segmental slot 72 in which a stop pin 62 on the neck yoke travels to limit the movement of the sleeve on the neck yoke.

7 3 is pendent lug on the sleeve to which the arms of the neck yoke coupling are hinged to permit the free movement of the neck yoke in a vertical plane.

Having thus described my invention the following is what I claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

A tongue cap comprising a thimble having a depending ring-stop provided with a forwardly projecting lug spaced from the thimble and forming a coupling ring-pocket, a circular head and a hitching eye, at the front of and in line with the head, having a curved latch-slot in its lower part, and a latch pivoted in the latch-slot and having its free end supported on the lug and formed with an upwardly curved bracing short arm seating within, impinging against and merging into the wall of the hitching eye.

JAMES EDWARD BENNETT. Witnesses:

E. P. HARNEY, FRANK HAMILTON.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

